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'Anything but autos': Can defense save Europe’s ailing car industry?

The European car industry is in a structural crisis. Slowing demand for electric vehicles, lost market share to Chinese competitors and higher borrowing costs have created the perfect storm for the sector over the past five years, as sales volumes continue to slump well below pre-pandemic levels.

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Iran Allows Iraqi Ships To Use Strait Of Hormuz As Total Weekly Transits Reach Highest Since War Began

Over the past two weeks we have been chronicling the increased rate of crossing across the "blockaded" strait of Hormuz as a growing number of ships from friendly nations - whether untolled Chinese tankers or toll-paying Indian, Japanese and Korean vessels - have been making the passage. And as traffic through the H…

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From diplomacy to bombs: Western nihilism fueled Iran’s expansion - opinion

The war that erupted on February 28, 2026, when the United States and Israel launched strikes against the Islamic Republic’s military and nuclear infrastructure, marks the collapse of a secular illusion: the belief that a revolutionary Islamic state behaves like a Westphalian bureaucracy, driven by state interest an…

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The war with Iran is a major setback to China’s Belt and Road Initiative - opinion

The main assumption behind China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is that economic connectivity can be insulated from geopolitics. The war with Iran is not just a regional conflict; it strikes at the structural heart of the BRI vision by showing that the BRI corridors are deeply impacted by regional security shocks.

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